Search Results: Titles starting with H from Schubertiade

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Exceptional gelatin silver print by American artist and writer Michael McKenzie, who has captured the legendary American fashion designer and novelist looking debonaire-as-ever while posed at an office desk, ca. 1980. Signed and inscribed along the lower left margin by Capote, "for Halston / much love / Truman", and by McKenzie, "For Halston - Who IS Fashion", who has also signed and dated "McKenzie '80" to lower right.  In fine condition.  Unmatted, set in an acrylic box frame; 11.6 x 17.15 inches (29.5 x 43.5 cm.).Capote and Halston had long been close friends.  In 1966, to honor the enormous success of "In Cold Blood", Capote hosted a spectacular gathering in New York City – The Black and White Ball  – widely considered to have been the most famous party of the 20th century, and among the many designers eager to dress the A-List attendees was newcomer Halston, who created the now iconic Bunny Mask worn by Candice Bergen. A few months after the present item's… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Graphically striking vintage suitcase used as instrument case by the leader of the wonderfully named and unique traveling musical formation from the Hoosier state.  The Spasmodic band were a group of oddballs who played bizarre music from homemade instruments in Mishawaka, a suburb of South Bend, Indiana.  Write-ups of their gigs, generally house parties and boxing matches, in 1916 and 1917 can be found in the archives of the local paper.  Included is a note explaining the original use of the case and its provenance: "This suitcase owned by Connel Yazel (1874-1972), the leader of this band, who lived at the Marion St. Mishawaka address. He was a member of the band from about 1896 until 1936, and could play multiple instruments, including the drums, harmonica, banjo, and guitar. He was famous in the area for balancing himself on a cut of broomstick and hopping around stage on it.  Connel kept his band stuff in the suitcase. Information from his grandson, Roy Shamory,… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Harlem Night Club, from Harlem Document. Gelatin silver print, the image measuring 10 x 7 1/2 inches (25.4x19.1 cm.), the sheet 13 7/8x10 7/8 inches (35.2x27.6 cm.), with Siskind's signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1936; printed circa 1970. Provenance: Alan Klotz Gallery, NYC. In very fine condition. From the celebrated "Harlem Document"portfolio of photographs by Aaron Siskind that reveals Harlem in the 1930s when the country was in the middle of the Great Depression and the Harlem Renaissance, with its community of intellectuals and artists who celebrated the black experience in literature, visual art and music, was in decline.  At that time, Siskind was part of the Photo League, a group committed to documenting social issues and created several consciousness-raising portfolios, of which "Harlem Document" is the most famous. Siskind was white and his subjects were almost all black but he managed over several years to become an… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Dramatic still from the 1940s Ice Follies revue, with Harris Legg jumping over a woman, probably his later wife Phyllis, who is held up in the air by four more four more female skaters. Manuscript inscription in capital print letters to foot in ink in an unknown hand, "Harris Legg / Ice follies /1940." Oblong format, 7.5 x 9.25 inches (19 x 23.5 cm). Slightly scratched, else fine.Harris Legg, born in New England but raised in Ontario, was with the Ice Follies from their inauguration in 1936. Phyllis, née Rebholz, from Minnesota, joined a few years later. They married in 1941 and became known for their acts using stilt skates (not depicted here).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Charming original doubleweight photograph of the Hello, Dolly! costars backstage at the 1965 Grammy Awards, where Streisand won Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for her recording of "People" and Armstrong won Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male for his solo rendition of "Hello, Dolly!"  Inscription to verso in an unknown hand, crease to lower left corner, short vertical tear to upper margin, else in fine condition.  7 x 5 inches (17.8 x 12.7 cm.).

London: Chapman & Hall, 1878. First. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. xvii, 470 pages; numerous illustrations. Olive half calf with gilt lettering and raised bands. 7.5 x 10.25 inches (19.5 x 26 cm).  Original cloth decorated cover and spine nicely mounted to inner front board and an added front flyleaf. Half title and title with paper repairs around edges or gutter, a few pages with small tears, one page with old tape reparis, but in very good condition overall. An interesting book from a French collector of ceramics whose works were translated into several languages. The English translation is by Bury Palliser. The original French edition, Histoire du mobilier : recherches et notes sur les objets d'art qui peuvent composer l'ameublement et les collections de l'homme du monde et du curieux, was published by Hachette in Paris in 1876.

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, [1803]. First printing. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Three parts bound as one: Erster Theil (108 pp); Zweyter Theil (96 pp); Dritter Theil (48 pp). Oblong quarto, contemporary marbled boards with manuscript title plate on front board. Boards and spine heavily worn, with one corner chipped from front cover. Internally in very fine condition with scattered foxing and a few pencil notations. First edition of the full score of Mozart's re-orchestration of Handel's Messiah, fully engraved. Köchel 572. RISM H 723; cf. Hoboken, v 104; Hoboken, xi 394.In the last years of his short life, Mozart turned his gaze on music of the past. Through the influence of his friend Baron van Swieten, he rediscovered the riches of the music of J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel. There were opportunities to perform the works by the earlier masters in Vienna, and in 1788 and 1789 Mozart arranged several large works for performance, including Acis and Galatea, Messiah and Alexander's… Read More

Mainz: Schott's Söhne, [ca. 1827]. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Piano vocal score.  Oblong folio. Engraved throughout. [PN] 3027.  50pp. Text in French and German. Inscribed on the title in an unknown hand to M. Gortebeeck, as a "souvenir de la bonne et belle exécution" of the work on August 19, 1864 at the secondary school of Dendermonde, Belgium, where Gortebeeck was the director of the of the "Koninklijk Harmonieorkest Sint Cecilia." In original pink wrappers, reinforced with contemporary paper along the spine, spine chipped, handling wear and light staining around the edges, title and early page lower margins with evidence of (mostly cleaned) ink staining, a few pages quite toned, overall very good.  Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm was a composer and pianist, pupil of Haydn, teacher of Franz Xaver Mozart, and influential mediator between the Classical and the Romantic periods.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Bookmark cross-stitched on needlepoint mesh made of perforated paper, with red border and blue text adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:7, "It [love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." Provenance: Likely Catherine Hall (Harvard Commune, 1813-1890, contained in a manuscript Shaker notebook ca. 1880); Raymond Adams (1898-1987, noted Thoreau scholar and collector, founder of the Thoreau Society); by descent. 5.25 x 1.2 inches. In fine condition. Similar cross-stitch bookmark examples are in the Allen-Mathews collection at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, KY, whose curator Aaron Genton notes that "These bookmarks were popular in the nineteenth century, especially during the Victorian era. This appears to be another way that the Shakers adopted practices that were also popular in the outside world. They were ways to produce mottos, sentiments, messages and feelings, and were often given as gifts."  Rare. The eight needlepoint… Read More

New York: Allen, Towne & Heath, Inc., 1947. First edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Story of Louis Armstrong, inscribed by Armstrong on the front free endpage "To my life long Buddy Bill Davidson from Louis Armstrong." First edition in English, published in French, in Paris, in the same year. Hardcover, original blue cloth, title in gilt to spine, treble clef embossed to the upper board. Portrait frontispiece, 304 pp. Signed page heavily toned, half title with two small punched holes, spine rubbed with ends a bit frayed, somewhat shaken but solid. Robert Goffin and Armstrong were close friends and although the volume is credited to Goffin, the later publication of his notebooks makes amply clear that he was in fact acting as Armstrong's paid amanuensis, much of the included material being drawn from Armstrong's own manuscript autobiography. 'Wild' Bill Davison (1906 - 1989) was a fiery jazz cornet player who emerged in the 1920s and is best remembered for his association with the… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Instructional booklet on how to play the harmonica, sold by Von Hofe's Music Shop in Johnson City, Tennessee.  The booklet includes instruction on various techniques, several short pieces for the instrument, historical information ("Abraham Lincoln played but one instrument—the harmonica. He called it his 'band.'"), and a guide to the different types of harmonica that exist.  24 pp.  In fine condition.  3.5 x 8.25 inches (8.9 x 21 cm.).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An English tobacco box bearing the kneeling captive iconography of the abolitionist movement, dating to the mid-19th Century. Height 4 x width 3.75 x depth 5.5 inches (10 x 9.5 x 14 cm.). Oxidation and pitting from age, handle is old but may not be original to the box, else fine.Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), a dedicated abolitionist and close friend of Thomas Clarkson designed the "logo" of the kneeling captive for the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1787. This was taken up by the American abolitionists, and in 1835 Patrick Reason, a young black engraver created a version of a kneeling woman that bore the caption "Am I not a Woman and a Sister?" This image, together with that of the infamous slave ship's hold, are without question the most iconic of the anti-slavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Autograph collection of Hungarian musicians and composers signed payment receipts ("I gratefully acknowledge that today I received..."), 1916 - 1932, both in pencil and pen, 13 pieces, including items signed by Bela Bartok (for a performance with Ernest Ansermet), Zoltan Kodaly (2x), Edwin Fischer, Imre Kálmán, Fritz Busch, Pongracz Kacsoh, Bela Zerkovitz (4x), Lajos Bardos and Sergio Failoni (who was, of course, Italian, but was the leading conductor of the Budapest Royal Opera House). The four oldest ones toned and with chipping, otherwise generally fine. Approximately 7 x 4 inches (19 x 12 cm).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A large and extensively worked autograph manuscript sketchleaf for the first of the Drei Hymnen, Op. 71, accomplished in pencil on both sides of a trimmed sheet of printed musical manuscript paper, signed and dated in ink on the composer's sixtieth birthday "Richard Strauss / Garmisch, 11.6.24".  Approx. 56 measures, with vocal line and short score, as well as unidentified scoring.  Numbered "7" in the corner of the inscribed side, with additional (apparently mathematical) notations in two locations. 35.5 x 12.5 cm. Central vertical crease, else fine. The signed side of the sheet includes, from the 11th bar of the upper system, the text "Von den Wettern überschattet Bebt entzückt der Mutter Brust" ["Overshadowed by the elements / The mother's breast trembles rapturously"] and corresponding musical ideas to the final published measures 178 - 198 of Hymne an die Liebe.  Though the preceding and following measures do not seem to closely track the published score,… Read More